This Day, July 6, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
July 6
1189: Henry
II, King of England, passed away.
Compared to those who followed him to the throne, Henry’s treatment of
his Jewish subjects was comparatively benign. (The emphasis is on
“comparatively.”) Henry levied two
special taxes on the Jewish community designed to finance the next Crusade to
the Holy Land. The tax of 1188 included
60,000 pounds on the Jews of London, one fourth the community’s wealth. All the Christians of England were required
to cough up a mere 10,000 pounds. Much to the consternation of some Church
leaders, Henry discouraged Jews from converting to Christianity. The wealth of dead Jews became the property
of the crown. These Jewish estates could
be of such value that when Aaron of Lincoln passed away, “Henry found it
necessary to set up a special branch of his Exchequer, named the Scaccarium
Aaronis, with no function other than processing his immense estate.”
1189: Richard the Lionheart becomes King of England
following the death of his father. His
coronation would not take place until September at which time a delegation of
Jews bringing gifts for the monarch would be denied access and be beaten by
English officials. Richard did take
action to protect his Jewish subjects when they were threatened. Unfortunately, Richard spent only the
equivalent of one year of his ten year reign in England. During his absence, the Jews would suffer at
the hands of English leaders including Richard’s brother and successor Prince,
and later King, John
1253: Mindaugas is crowned king of Lithuania,
reportedly the first ruler to hold this title. There was a Jewish presence in
Lithuania at this time, since small numbers of Jewish merchants probably began
arriving in Lithuania during the 12th century. They were followed by
others of their co-religionists who were fleeing persecution brought on by the
Crusades and the Black Death. Large number of Jews would not begin arriving in
Lithuania until the frist decades of the 13th centuries when they
were invited to settle there by Gediminas.
1348: Pope Clement VI issued a Papal Bull
protecting Jews during the Black Plague. “Clement VI reigned during the Black
Death. This pandemic swept through Europe (as well as Asia and the Middle East)
between 1347 and 1350. It is believed to have killed between a third and two
thirds of Europe's population…Popular opinion blamed the Jews for the plague,
and pogroms erupted throughout Europe. Clement issued two papal bulls in 1348
which condemned the violence and said those who blamed the plague on the Jews had
been ‘seduced by that liar, the Devil.’ He urged clergy to take action to
protect Jews, but the orders appeared to have little effect, and the
destruction of whole Jewish communities continued until 1349.” These events are described in A
Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by the Jewish historian Barbara Tuchman.
139l: In Valencia, the criers whom Prince Martin sent “sent around
proclaiming that the Jews were under the crown’s protection” were “revoked”
today, three days before the Jews of Valencia
were attacked.
1476: Abraham ben
Solomon Conat a Jewish printer, Talmudist, and physician, printed Tur Orah
Hayyim by Jacob b. Asher at Mantua, Italy. Jacob ben Asher, also
known as Ba'al ha-Turim, was born in Cologne, Germany around 1269 and probably
died in Toledo, Spain in 1343. He was an influential Medieval rabbinic
authority who is often referred to as the Baal ha-Turim' ("Master of the
Rows"), after his main work in halachah the Arba'ah Turim ("Four
Rows"). The work was divided into 4 sections, each called a
"tur," alluding to the rows of jewels on the High Priest's
breastplate. He was the third son of Asher ben Jehiel (known as the
"Rosh"), a German-born Rabbi who moved to Spain.”
1496: “The Mantuan
court painter Mantegna” began work on “devotional painting” known as The Madonna della Vittoria which was
paid for by Daniele da Norsa, a Jewish banker per the command of Sigismondo
Gonzaga
1609: Bohemia
is granted freedom of religion in the same year as that in which Rabbi Judah
Loew ben Bezalel also known as the Maharal, one of the most famous Jewish
scholars and educators from Prague passed away. “Rabbi Loew published more than
50 religious and philosophical books and became the center of legends, as the
mystical miracle worker who created the Golem. The Golem is an artificial man
made of clay that was brought to life through magic and acted as a guardian
over the Jews. The Maharal had positive relations with Rudolph II and was even
invited to his castle.
1625: Rabbi
Yom-Tov Lipman Heller is placed in prison along with common criminals in a
Vienna jail after having been wrongfully convicted of abusing his authority as
Chief Rabbi of Prague.
1707(6th
of Tammuz, 5467): Rabbi Samuel ben Alexander “a resident of
Frankfort-on-the-Oder who wrote Peri
Megadim passed away today.
1708: Abraham
Haim de Lucena,, whose last name might indicate that his family had come from
Lucena, the son of Abraham Lucena and the husband of Rachel Lucena who had
supplied the American expedition during Queen Anne’s War became “a freeman”
today in New York City.
1758: Clement
XIII was elected Pope. During his reign,
Clement “proclaimed that the Holy See had examined the grounds on which rested
the belief in the use of human blood for the feast of Passover and murder of
Christians by Jews, and the Jews must be condemned as criminals in respect of
the charge, but that in the case of such occurrences legal forms of proof must
be used.” (As reported by Graetz)
1771(24th
of Tammuz, 5531): Parashat Pinchas chanted on the same day that Austria gained
the Bukovina District from the Ottomans with a treaty signed today during the
Russo-Turkish War.
1777: Today,
in New York, Haym Salomon married fifteen-year-old Rachel Franks the mother of
Ezekiel Salomon, Sallie (Salomon) Andrews, Deborah (Salomon) Cohen and Haym
Moses Salomon.”
1780: “The
Royal Proclomation published in the Georgia Gazette” today described Savannah
born Mordecai Sheftall, the long-time supporter of liberty from England “as a
‘Great Rebel.’”
1794: In
Berlin Stadt, Brandenburg, Preussen, Amalie and Jacob (Yehuda) Herz Beer gave
birth to Heinrich (Henoch) Hans Beer.
1795(19th of
Tammuz, 5555): Judith Gompertz, the daughter of Barent Gompertz and Rachel
Benjamin Isaac passed away after which she was buried in the Lauriston Road
Jewish Cemetery.
1796:
Birthdate of Nicholas I, Czar of Russia from 1825 until his death in 1855. In the case of the Nicholas there was
consistency in his behavior as Czar and his treatment of the Jews. In both instances he was a narrow-minded,
reactionary, despot who was so incompetent that he led Russia to disaster in
the Crimean War. As a totalitarian dictator, Nicholas was fully responsible for
all of his action aimed at his Jewish subjects.
These included but were not limited to
expulsion from a variety of cities including Kiev; the drafting of
under-age Jewish boys for twenty-five years of military service; the banning of
beards and a sidelocks for men and banning of women shaving their heads at the
time of marriage; the banning of Yiddish; censorship and destruction of Jewish
books. And this list does not include
the mistreatment of the general populace with such measures as the
establishment of a secret police system designed to stamp out any manifestation
of democracy or Western values.
1797(12th
of Tammuz, 5557): Sixty-one-year-old Colonel Mordecai Sheftall the Savannah
born son of Benjamin and Perla Sheftall whose family founded Congregation
Mickve Israel and who was both an observant Jew, ardent patriot and the highest
ranking Jewish officer in the Continental Army who raised five children –
Shetall, Benjamin, Moses, Perla and Esther – with his wife Frances passed away
today.
https://nmajmh.org/education/individual-profiles/mordecai-sheftall/
https://archives.cjh.org//repositories/3/resources/1659
1797(12th of
Tammuz, 5557): Sixty-one-year-old Mordecai Sheftall the husband of Frances Hart
whom he married in Charleston, SC, passed away today after which he was buried
in the Savannah (GA) Jewish Cemetery.
1798: As the
French Army moved to supplant the English in the eastern Mediterranean in
fighting that would take them to Biblical cites in Palestine, General Desaix
marched his division to within fifteen miles of Alexandria while Bonaparte left
the city heading for Cairo.
1798: Thirty-nine-year-old Paris born attorney and
French revolutionary Adrien Francois Duport who in 1791 “proposed that the Jews
be accorded all the privileges of citizenship in France, and the suggestion was
adopted despite some slight opposition” passed away today.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/5364-duport-adrien
1806: The
Assembly of Jewish Leaders was scheduled to meet in Paris.
1821:
Birthdate of Leone Levi, the Italian born British barrister and author whose
works included Work and Pay; Wages and Earnings of the Working Classes; and
International Law, with Materials for a Code
1832: David
Lopez began serving as “a Lieutenant of Artillery” in the United States Army.
1839:
Birthdate of Bavaria native Leopold Henry Levy, who came to New Orleans at the
age of 10, married Reinga F. Lengsfield in 1870 and eventually moved to St.
Louis where he was vice president of The Hub Furniture Company, a member of the
United Jewish Charities Association and the father of three children – Charles,
Lucille and Nellie.
1840: Jesse
Seligman was one of the steerage
passages who arrived at Castle Garden today
1846: Lord
Palmerston began his term of Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs during
which the British blockaded the port of
Piraeus as part of the response to Greece’s abuse of David Pacifico, whom
Palmerston defended as this “man of Jewish persuasion” and on whose be he “made
a celebrated speech which concluded that all British subjects ought to be able
to say, as did citizens of ancient Rome, "Civis Romanus sum" ("I
am a citizen of Rome"), and thereby receive protection from the British
government.”
1841: In
Canterbury, England, Nathan Jacobs and Hannah Barnard gave birth to Sophia
Jacobs today.
1844(19th
of Tammuz 5604): On the same day that Parashat Pinchas was read, the second round of Nativist Riots began
today in Philadelphia.
1846:
Birthdate of Baden-Württemberg, Germany native Albert Cahn, a graduate of West
Chester College the commander of Company H of the 135th Indiana
Volunteers during the Civil War and the husband of Ella Katzenberg Cahn who
moved to St. Louis where he was “a senior of member of the Cahn, Brothers,” one
of the leading clothing establishments in the United States.
1847(22nd of
Tammuz, 5607: Baltimore community leader David Israel Cohen passed away at the
age of 48.
1849:
Birthdate of Julius Sachs, the native of Baltimore who founded Sachs Collegiate
Institute in 1872 (now the Dwight School) which he served until 1902 when he
became a Professor of Education at Columbia University’s Teachers College and
the husband of Rosa Goldman, the daughter of Marcus Goldman of “Goldman-Sachs”
with whom he had one son, Ernest Sachs.
1851: Two days
after he passed away, 20-year-old Morris Joseph was buried today at the Balls
Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1853: Bertha
Phillips, a 20-year-old German Jewess was tried on charges of having stolen two
$20 gold pieces from Mrs. Schufeldt, a co-religionist with whom she had been
living before the the theft. An additional testimony as to the defendant’s
guilt was provided by another Jew. Before the case went to the jury, one of the
jurors who was Jewish asked if both of the witnesses were Jewish. At first the judge refused to provide the
information since he said that the court had no right to pry into their creed or
beliefs. At which point another juror,
who was also Jewish, said that he would not believe a word the Jewish witnesses
had to say unless they were sworn in again using a copy the Hebrew Bible. The
judge accepted the request; rewswore the witnesses who testified again. The jury found the defendant guilty of grand larceny without even having
to leave the jury box. Miss Phillips was
sentenced to two years in the state penitentiary and was led away in tears.
1853: In
Franfurt am Main, Jakob Gustav Adam Flesch and Florentine Flesch gave birth to
Karl Flesch.
1853 Moss
Defries married Flora Lyons today.
1854: The
Republican Party is officially created in Jackson, Michigan. Several Jews would play an active an active
part in the early days of the Republican Party, including the uncle of Supreme
Court Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis, who placed Lincoln’s name in nomination
for President in 1860. By July of 2009,
thanks to the defeat of Senator Norm Coleman and the party switch of Senator
Arlen Spector, there are no Jewish Republican U.S. Senators.
1857: The
New York Times reported that The House of Commons voted to amend the Oaths
Bill so as to prevent from holding any office belonging to the Ecclesiastical
Courts or any other office that “wield influence in the affairs of the church.”
1859: In
Warsaw, “Benjamin Jacob and Rica (Cantor) Planko” gave birth to Mendel Planko,
the husband of Sarah Ravich who came to the United States in 1880, “settling in
Chicago” where he worked in the leather trade eventually becoming
“Superintendent of Neilson Brothers, manufacturers of fancy leather.”
1859: In
Bavaria, Seligman Sonn and Bella Heineman gave birth to R.A. Sonn, the husband
of Dora Fried and author of a Hebrew primer, Or Chodesh who settled in Atlanta,
GA.
1860: Michael
Samuel Schlesinger, who with his wife Annie had seven children was buried today
at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1861: English
archivist and historian Sir Francis Palgrave, the son Jewish stockbroker Meyer
Cohen and his wife Rachel Levien Cohen who changed his name from Francis
Ephraim and became an Anglican, apparently as a condition of his marriage to
Elizabeth Turner in 1823 passed away today.
https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait.php?linkID=mp03427&rNo=1&role=sit
1861: In
response to an order issued today by the U.S. Secretary of War, Colonel Max
Friedman organized the 65th Regiment of the Fifth Cavalry, known as
“Cameron Dragoons made up of ten companies from Philadelphia and two companies
from Pittsburgh which included a large number of Jewish volunteers.
1862: In
Portland, Oregon, “the first Hebrew benevolent association” which had been
organized by the leaders of Congregation Beth Israel was reorganized today.
1863: In
issuing orders about the status of the recently conquered city of Vicksburg,
General Logan states that the city will be a military outpost and not a trading
center. He complained that when Memphis
had been captured and turned into a trading center “the Jews and the rebel
citizens of that pestilent city” had turned into “a grand depot of smugglers.”
[Editor’s note – This is not the first or the last derogatory comment that
Union generals serving in the West made about Jews. This is strange when one consider the number
of Jews who were there comrades in arm including Major General Frederick
Knefler and General Edward S. Salomon whom Sherman called “one of the most
deserving officers.”
1864(2nd
of Tammuz, 5624): Forty-three-year-old Viennese chemist Theodor Wertheim who
“was the father of gynecologist Ernst Wertheim passed away today.
1865:
Eleven-year-old Thomas Burns who “was shot in the hand with a pistol” was
“taken to the Jew’s Hospital” which was founded in 1852 by Sampson Simpson in
response to the discrimination against Jews by other hospitals, but broaden its
patient base during the Civil War when it became a major place of treatment for
Union soldiers, and which is now known as Mt. Sinai Hospital
1866: Benjamin
Disraeli begins his third term as Chancellor of the Exchequer replacing his
nemesis, William Gladstone.
1870: Simon
Henry Russell married Catherine Levy in London today.
1871(17th
of Tammuz, 5631): Tzom Tammuz
1871: In London,
Abraham Israel Mendoza, the London born son of Bilha and Israel Mendoza and His
wife Maria Mendoza, gave birth to Mordecai Mendoza who Anglicized his name to
Mark
1872(30th
of Sivan, 5632): Sixty-six-year-old Ludwig F. Frankel the native of Berlin who
became a physician in 1830 and who
served as chief physician of the water-cure hospital in Berlin from 1848
until he resigned in 1867 to devote himself to his private practice passed away
today.
1872: Clothing
store owner Levi Mastbaum and Franny Mastbaum gave birth to Wharton graduate
Jules Ephraim Mastbaum.
1873: Two days
after he passed away, 32 year old Amsterdam native James de Jongh was buried
today at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1875: Sir
Julius Vogel, the first Jewish Prime Minister of New Zealand completed his
first term in office.
1875: In
Washington, DC, Phillip and Natalie Peyeser gave birth to Julius I. Peyeser, a
graduate of Georgetown University a WW I veteran who was a successful lawyer,
banker, an active member of the Jewish Community and the husband of Miriam
Prince.
1876:
Birthdate of investment banker Robert C. Schaffner, “the chairman of the board
of A.G. Becker and Co. who had one daughter, Katherine, with his wife Frances
and who a supporter of Chicago’s Art Institute
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1946/11/14/93177634.html?pageNumber=29
1877(25th
of Tammuz, 5637): Nineteen-day old Josephine Hellman, the daughter of Lena and
Louis M. Hellman passed away today after which she was buried in New Mount
Sinai Cemetery in Affton, MO.
1877: James
Grady and William Henry were tried today at the Tombs Police Court today on
charges that they had assaulted “Jacob Herman, a German Jew who a runs a peanut
and fruit stand.” The two were members
of the Battle Alley Gang and Herman had testified against them in a case heard
three days ago. When the two attacked
Herman, they referred to him as that swearing Jew. At the end of the trial, Henry was sentenced
to a month in the County Prison while Henry was “acquitted for lack of
evidence.”
1879: It was
reported today that the Jews of Romania had petitioned the Romanian government
for a revision to the Constitution that would guarantee them their rights as
citizens on the same footing as all other Romanians.
1882: In
Goppingen, Germany, Emilie Fleischer, the “daughter of Bernhard Loeb Rosenthal
and Jette Rosenthal and her husband Samuel Fleischer gave birth to Holocaust
victim Julius Fleisher the “husband of Irma Fleischer and father of Arnold
Fleischer; Doris Sylvia* Hurst; Susanne Fleischer and Richard Fleischer.”
1882: The
first 14 members of BILU arrived from Russia at the port of Yaffa in what is
now the land of Israel. The letters BILU are the initials for the Hebrew
expression, "House of Jacob Let Us Rise and Go." BILU was formed by
Russian students at the University of Khrakov who called for the active
colonization of the land. The students hired themselves out as agricultural
laborers at Mikve Yisrael. They believed it was possible to start a worldwide
movement to encourage settlement in Eretz Israel.
1882: Several
Russian Jews who arrived at Castle Garden aboard the SS Newnham today will
apparently not be staying in New York since they have tickets for destinations
in the American West.
1882:
“Outrages On Jews In Manitoba” published today reported that a group of Jews
who had gone to work at Whitemouth were ferociously beaten by a band of men who
previously been doing the work.
1883(1st
of Tammuz, 5643): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1883: In
Philadelphia, Rebecca Goldfarb and Simon Bram gave birth to University of
Pennsylvania and Medic-Chirurgical College trained medical doctor Israel Bram,
the husband of Frances Evelyn Frances Silver who was director of the Bram
Goiter institute and a member of Rodeph Shalom Synagogue in Philadelphia.
1883: The
future King George V who had visited Jerusalem in 1882 and wrote in his diary
“Its children (of the land of Israel) will come here from all over the world
and a new Jewish Nation will be resurrected in the Holy Land” and during whose
reign the Balfour Declaration was issued was joined in matrimony to “Mary of Teck”
today.
1883: “Murder
of a Hebrew Merchant” published today reported that a reward of $1,500 has been
offered for the man who killed H. Mias, a Jewish merchant living in Benivides.
1884: It was
reported today that the police in Vienna had difficulty restoring after a fight
broke out between the Social Democrats and a party of anti-Semites.
1884: In
Demopolis, AL, Rachel Bernheim and Simon Mayer gave birth to Harvard graduate
and Columbia Medical School trained orthopedic surgeon Leo Mayer, the husband
of Edith Heimann and starting in 1920 the assistant professor of orthopedic
surgery at New York Post Graduate School and Hospital who was also the acting
chief of staff of the Joint Disease Hospital and the author of “50 monographs
dealing with orthopedic subjects.”
1884: It was
reported today that the anti-Semitic rioters who were arrested at Nijni
Novgorod will have to be tried by court-martial because the civil courts
refused to convict due to the anti-Semitic feelings prevalent among the Russian
peasants.
1885: In
Louisville, KY, Alfred S. Brandeis, the son of Adolph and Fredericka
Brandeis gave birth to Adele Brandeis,
the niece of Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/sternberger-estelle-miller
1886: In
Lyons, France, Gustave Bloch and his wife gave birth to Marc Bloch who gained
fame as an historian and educator. He held chairs at both Strasbourg
University and the Sorbonne. His works on French rural and feudal society
became classics. In 1939, despite the fact that he was “overage” he enlisted
in the French Army and fought the invading Germans. After the French
surrendered to the Germans, he joined the Resistance where his specialty was in
working with secret codes. He was captured by the Nazis and tortured
before being shot on June 16, 1944.
1887: The
funeral of Jonas Heller, a Trustee of the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews is
scheduled to be held today.
1887: Albert
Weinschenk a young German whose Christian wife had defied her family by
marrying him appears to have shot himself this evening after his mother-in-law
had accused him of being a bigamist.
1887: In New
York City, “Jacob and Mary “Bieber) Greenwald gave birth Columbia University
trained biochemist and Professor of Chemistry at NYU School of Medicine Isidor
Greenwald, the husband of Alma Greenwald and the father of David Greenwald.
1888: A
reception committee met at Meyer’s Hotel in Hoboken, NJ, in anticipation of the
arrival of Rabbi Jacob Charif whose ship was due to dock on Saturday morning.
Charif has been brought from Wilna by members of the United Society to provide
leadership based on halachah for the ever growing population of immigrant Jews
populating the Lower East Side.
1888: In New
York City, Margarethe King and David Friedlander gave birth to award-winning
sculptor Leo Friedland, the husband of Rhoda Leucher.
https://americanart.si.edu/artist/leo-friedlander-1680
1889:
Birthdate of George Berthold Samuelson, the native of Southport, England who
was on the early creators of the British movie industry who created G.B.
Samuelson Productions.
1890: “An
Empire’s Young Chief” published today provided a snapshot of conditions in
Germany under the new Kaiser, Wilhelm II with a special emphasis on the role of
the Jews who “in the New Berlin…occupy a more commanding and dominant position
than they ever have had in any other important city the fall of a Jerusalem” –
a situation that has given an excuse for the anti-Semites to preach their
increasingly popular doctrine.
1891: The
fifty doctors assigned by the Board Health “to visit the tenement houses and
look after the sick children during the hot weather” met today Sanitary
Headquarters where they were given pamphlets written in several languages
including Hebrew as tickets “for the free excursions” sponsored by the
Sanitarium for Hebrew Children.
1891: It was
reported today that “a sizable tract of land” In Marlborough, Connecticut has
been purchased by the Baron de Hirsch Fund. Baron de Hirsch “has established…a
very large fund that is to be used…for poor Jews who are being driven out of
…Europe.”
1891: “The
Jewish Immigrants” published today described the organization of efforts to
provide a civic education for the Russians arriving in St. Louis. The effort drew support from non-Jews as well
as Jews as can be seen by the fact that Dr. Ingraham of the spiritual leader of
Grace Episcopal Church was among those who attended the meeting and contributed
the three dollars which the annual dues of the nascent organization.
1892: “The
opening session of the third annual Central Conference of American Rabbis was
held” tonight at Temple Beth-El in New York City.
1892: During
the Homestead Strike, which would lead to an assassination attempt by Alexander
Berkman “a fight broke out between
300 Pinkerton guards and a crowd of armed union workers” during which seven
guards and nine strikers were killed.”
1892:
Birthdate of Polish native Jacob Selig Yellen who was raised in Buffalo NY and
gained fame as lyricist and screenwriter Jack Yellen who wrote “Happy Days Are
Here Again,” the 1920’s ditty that became the snappy theme song for FDR’s
presidential campaigns during the depth of the Great Depression.
1893:
Birthdate of John Charles Walker the agricultural scientist who won the Wolf
Foundation Prize in Agriculture in 1978.
1893: Clothing
contractors Solomon Wallach and Jacob Seidman were accused of today of trying
to break the United Garment Workers of American by firing union members and
replaced them with apprentices from the United Hebrew Charities.
1894:
Birthdate of German native Siegfried Ullman, who came to the United States in
1923 where he became a successful businessman and philanthropist who was of the
Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the Weizmann Institute In Israel
https://www.geni.com/people/Siegfried-Ullmann/6000000011869252825
1894: Two days
after he passed away, 74-year-old Jacob Lazarus was buried today at the West
Ham Jewish Cemetery.
1894: In
Little Rock, AR, Ephraim and Sallie Lasker Simon gave birth to Harold Frederick
Epstein, the brother of Clarence, Arnold and S. Lasker Epstein.
1895: In New
York, on Shabbat, The Empire Life Insurance company obtained an order from
Justice Stover directing the officials of Washington Cemetery to permit the
exhumation” of the body Annie Silverman, the widow of Wolf Silverman, as part
of their legal campaign to avoid paying the death benefit to the beneficiary.
1895: Theodor Herzl wrote in his diary the following entry
describing his conversation with Max Nordeau who would become one of the
leaders of the Zionist movement. “Yesterday with Nordau, over a glass of beer.
Also discussed the Jewish question, of course. Never before I had been in such
perfect tune with Nordau. Each took the words right out of the other's mouth. I
never had such a strong feeling that we belonged together. This has nothing to
do with religion. He even said that there was no such thing as a Jewish dogma.
But we are of one race. ...
Nordau said: "What is the tragedy of Jewry?" That this most
conservative of peoples, which yearns to be rooted in some soil, has had no
home for the last two thousand years.
We agreed on every point, so that I already thought that the same ideas had led
him to the same plan. But he comes to a different conclusion: "The
Jews", he says, "will be compelled by antisemitism to destroy among
all peoples the idea of a fatherland." Or, I secretly thought to myself,
to create a fatherland of their own.”
1896: In a
speech at "The Maccabaeans," Herzl formulates the program of the
"Society of Jews": According to Herzl, “The task of the Society of
Jews is the acquisition according to international law of a territory for those
Jews who cannot assimilate."
1896:
Twenty-year-old editor and publisher Carl Florian Zittel, the Patterson, NJ
born son of Gustav and Bertha (Morgenthau) Zittel and nephew of Ambassador
Henry Morgenthau, who for nineteen years was the drama editor of the New York
Evening Journal “and confidant of William Randolph Hurst” married Martha
Beatrice Bernstein today in Buffalo, NY.
1896: The
funeral of Jules s. Abecasis will begin at 11 o’clock at Shearith Israel in New
York.
1897: After it
was confirmed that Theodor Herzl wanted to hold a Zionist Congress in Munich,
the Board of the Munich Jewish Community wrote to the General Rabbinical
Association protesting against the Zionist movement.
1897:
Birthdate of Victoria, BC native Viola Gutman Silver, the wife of Max A. Silver
who in 1904 move to Seattle where she was an officer in Hadassah and the Jewish
Welfare Socidty.
1898: It was
reported today that Dr. Richard J.H. Gottheil, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, Dr.
William Cowen, K.H. Sarsohn, Leon Zolollkoff and Dr. I.J. Bluestone have been
named to serve as delegates at the upcoming Zionist Congress in Basel.
1898: In
Leipzig, Professor of Philosophy Rudolf Eister who was Jewish and his wife
Marie Ida Eisler (née Fischer) who was gave birth to composer Hanns Eisler.
Eisler moved to Berlin after World War I where his art flourished as did his
involvement in left-wing politics. He
left Germany for the United States in 1933 where he became a leader of
anti-Nazi artists and where he pursued his composing career which included two
Oscar nominations. After World War II he
was placed on the Black List and ended up returning to East Germany. Eisler fell afoul of the commissars in
Germany. Five year after being deported
from the United States because of his leftist political views, he was hauled
before a German Communist tribunal where he was accused of not being loyal to
Socialism, a charge from which his career and health did not recover.
1898(16th
of Tammuz, 5658): Fifty-two-year-old Cornelius Herz who was involved in the
infamous Panama Scandal passed away today.
1898: With the
completion of the mustering of the 3rd Regiment Connecticut
Volunteer Infantry into U.S. Service, Corporal Charles Lowenthal and Private
Frederick Edward Cahn, both of New Haven were part of the Army that was
fighting Spain.
1899(28th
of Tammuz, 5659): Forty-seven year old Moravian born Rabbi David Kaufman
passed away today while serving as the chair “of history, philosophy of
religion, and homiletics at the newly founded rabbinical school at Budapest.”
1899: Benjamin
Kossman completed three years of serving with the 6th Cavalry of the
United States Army.
1899: As the
dispute grew over how to honor the French officer who had been a cruel victim
of anti-Semitism, a group of Jews sent a cable to Emile Zola looking for
advice: “American Jewish wish to present Captain Drefyus with a golden sword.
[Send] answer [to[ Jewish Forward
whether it will not help anti-Semitism.”
1899: Benjamin
Blumental, the President of Rodoph Sholem
and the father of Assistant District Attodrney Maruice B. Blumental was
sworn in today as a school inspector in the 24th District after
having served as School Inspector in the Fourth District for fifteen years.
1899(28th of Tammuz, 5659): David Kaufmann a
Jewish-Austrian scholar born at Kojetín, Moravia (now in the Czech Republic) in
1852 passed away. A university professor and librarian, he was a prolific
author whose works included studies in Jewish history, studies of synagogue art
and polemics in defense of Judaism.
1900(9th of
Tammuz, 5660): Gustav Born, the father of Max Born passed away today.
1901: Orthodox
Jew William A. Pinkoson, the Krasnow born son of Leib and Libbe Pinkonson, the
owner of a large, successful dry goods and clothing store in St. Augustine, FL and
co-founder and secretary Congregation B’nai Israel today married Minnie
Talinksy with whom he had four children – Harry, Libbie, Abe and Joseph.
1901: The
annual Conference of American Rabbis was scheduled to end today in
Philadelphia. Rabbi Harry H. Mayer had presented a paper to the meeting on
“Sabbath School Problem.” The conference
will reconvene at New Orleans in April of 1902
1902: It was
reported today that “all the Jews engaged in the iron ore and coal mining
industries in the Government of Ekaterinoslaf, Russia are, pursuant to a
gubernatorial edict, and during the course of the current month to be expelled
from their employment” which will have an “affect” on between 40,000 and 50,000
Jews.
1903: It was
reported today that Dr. Joseph Seffs has been chosen temporary head of the
newly formed “central organization, called the United Zionists of Greater New
York’ which was created by “representatives from sixty-five Zionists in New
York City.”
1904: Samuel
Untermeyer was among the delegates attending the Democratic Party National
Convention which opened today in St. Louis, MO.
1905: Alfred
Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the second time. As can be seen
from his relationship with the Sir Isaac Alfred Isaacs Deakin had no problem
with working with Jews
1905: In
Australia, Sir Isaac Alfred Isaacs was appointed attorney-general. The son of
Russian-Polish immigrants, Isaacs’ successful political and legal career would
eventually lead to him being named Governor-General.
1905:
Birthdate of Brussels native Augstine Lorge who married dramatist Claude Spaak
and became Suzanne Spaak, the lady of luxury who joined the joined Leopold
Trepper’s “Red Orchestra and saved 163 Jewish children from sent to the death
camps before being captured, tortured and murdered by the Nazis – actions for
which she recognized by Yad Vashem as a Righteous Among the Nations.
1905: Simon
Wolf, the Chairman of the Board of Delegates on Civil and Religious Rights of
the Union of American Hebrew Congregations sent a communication to President
Roosevelt expressing the members sorrow “at the death of the late Secretary of
State John Hay.”
1906: It was
reported today that Rabbi Morris Goldberg has been chosen to head the Brothers
of Israel Congregation replaced Rabbi Elitzer who is moving to Troy, NY.
1907:
Birthdate of Mexican painter, feminist and social rebel, Frida Kahlo.
1907: At the
18th annual convention of the Central Conference of American Rabbis
services were led by Rabbis Leo Mannheimer and Mayer Messing, with a sermon
delivered by Rabbi Marcus Salzman followed by the Rabbi Martin Zielonka’s
closing prayer and benediction.
1907: This
evening, at the 18th annual convention of the Central Conference of
American Rabbis, Rabbi Samuel Schulman led a Round Table Discussion on “Our
Attitude Toward Liberal Independent and Other Modern Religious Movements” and
Rabbi Abram Simon led a Round Table Discussion on “The Most Suggestive Book
Read During the Year.”
1908: “Rabbi
Criticizes Hospital” published today described the complaints Dr. H. Pereira
Mendes the Rabbi at Sherith Israel Synagogue and President of the Union of
Orthodox Jewish Congregations of the United States of America had about Mt.
Sinai Hospital and “several institutions which hare supported and controlled by
Jews” which are not being operated in a manner that the “observant Hebrews who
aid in their support would have them” as can be seen by their failure to server
Kosher meat to their patients and residents.
1908: O. Raymond
Brown received $136.80 from the National Conference of Jewish Charities today.
1908:
Birthdate of New York City native Rayle Schupper, “the head of the Women’s
Division of the American Jewish Committee, who, as a member of Committee’s
foreign affairs department attended “the founding meeting of the United Nations
at San Francisco in 1945” after which she “helped to establish the European
Office of the American Jewish Committee in Paris.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1963/04/09/90553559.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1908: The
Kremo Family, a famous troupe of European acrobats are scheduled to open
tonight at Hammerstein’s Roof Garden, where patrons have been previously by “an
automatic butter churn operated by a treadmill run by a collie.”
1909(17th of
Tammuz, 5669): Tzom Tammuz
1909: The
Trenton Evening Times reported that Rabbi Morris Goldberg of Camden New Jersey
was chosen to succeed Rabbi Elitzer as head of the Brothers of Israel
Congregation.
1910:
Nineteen-year-old Isaac Isidore, the second born son of Sarah and Solomon
LIfshitz who was “traveling un the name Fzko Lifschitz” arrived in New York
today about the SS Litunania
1910: As of
today, the officers of the Central Conference of American Rabbis are “Honorary
President, Kaufman Kohler; President Max Heller; Vice President Samuel
Schulman; Treasurer Moses J. Gries; Recording Secretary Julian Morganstern; and
Corresponding Secretary Ephraim Frisch.
1911:
Birthdate of Berlin native Rudolf “Rudi” Fehr whose film editing credits
included at least two Hollywood classics – “Key Largo” and “Dial M For Murder.
1912:
Birthdate of “American movie producer and screenwriter Milton Speriling.”
1912: The
Summer Olympics, during which Jacques Ochs whose teammates included fellow Jew
Gaston Salomon, won a gold medal in the team épée event opened today in Stockholm.
1913(1st
of Tammuz, 5673): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1913: On
Chicago’s south side, Congregation Beth Jacob is scheduled to dedicate their
new Temple “at the corner of 44th Street and St Lawrence Avenue.”
1913: After
attending services at Beth Israel Temple which were led by Rabbi William
Lowenburg as part of yesterday’s observance of Shabbat, the Conference of
American Rabbis was scheduled to resume its regular meetings this morning at
Atlantic City, NJ.
1914: Dr.
Isaac Husik of Philadelphia is in charge of the courses being offered in Jewish
history and literature for the first time “at the summer session of Columbia
University which opened this morning.
1914(12th
of Tammuz, 5674): Seventy-year-old Max Weyl, the German
born son Emma Miriam and Veit Hirsch who in 1853 moved to Williamsport,
PA where he learned to repair watches and clocks before moving to Washington,
D.C. where he became a jeweler and landscape painter passed away today.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/14882-weyl-max
https://americanart.si.edu/artist/max-weyl-5344
1914: It was
reported today that Rabbi Milton M. Markowitz “of the Jewish Theological
Seminary has been chosen” to fill the pulpit at “Congregation Keneseth Israel”
one of several new congregations that have been formed in the last few years in
Washington Heights.
1915: “Alfred
A Wilson, an American engineer who arrived in” New York City today “from Egypt
and Palestine sad that…the Turkish Governor of Jerusalem had treated the Jews
very harshly” and that “they had either to become Turkish subjects or leave the
country” while “Americans and other foreigners in Jerusalem…were not bothered
in any way by the German or Turkish officials.”
1915: In
London, Madge (Mitchell) and Bertie Joseph gave birth to Yvonne Frances Joseph,
who gained fame as actress Yvonne Mitchell who also had a career as a
playwright whose most famous work was “The Same Sky.”
1916: The list
of the newly elected officers of the Federation of American Zionists published
today included “Dr. Harry F. Friendenwald, Baltimore, President; Louis Lipsky,
New York, Chairman of the Executive Committee; Louis Robinson, New York,
Treasurer; and Bernard A. Rosenblatt, New York, Honorary Secretary.”
1916:
Birthdate of Dr. Albert Dorfman, the holder of a PhD in Chemistry and an MD
from the University of Chicago and a WW II Army Veteran who “discovered the
cause of Hurler’s Syndrome and who was the husband of the former Ethel Steinman
and the father of Abby and Julie Dorfman.
http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/dorfman-albert.pdf
http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/dorfman-albert.pdf
1917(17th
of Tammuz, 5677): Parshat Balak; Tzom Tammuz not observed because of Shabbat
1917(17th
of Tammuz, 5677): Forty-two-year-old Ben S. Sandfelder, the son of Hannah
Sandler of St. Louis passed away “suddenly” today.
1917(17th
of Tammuz, 5677): Rabbi Samuel Margolies, who had been injured in an automobile
accident along with his eleven-year-old son, passed away today after developing
pneumonia while being treated from the effects of two broken ribs.
1917:
Birthdate of Albert Abramson, the Bronx born Washingtonian who became a
successful real estate promoter and “a principal force in the creation of the
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.” (As reported by Douglas Martin)
1917: At
Onezki, near Kiev, “a conspiracy by the Black Hundreds to fabricate accusations
of ritual murder” were exposed.
1917: In
Russia, at Homel, the militia discovered lists of those “marked for immediate
attack” in the houses of members of the Black Hundreds.
1918: Thirty-eight-year-old
John P. Mitchell passed away today. At
age 34, the Roman Catholic Mitchell who courted the Jewish vote and attended
numerous Jewish functions was elected Mayor of New York. He was part of a Fusion Ticket made up of
reformers fighting the Tammany Machine. The reformers were an amalgam of
Protestants, Republicans and uptown Republicans.
1918:
Birthdate of Charles Aikenbaum who was shipped to Auschwitz in 1943.
1918: “A drive
for recruits for the Jewish legion that is to garrison Palestine” under the
leadership of Dr. Hyman Morrison “was started in New England today as part of
the national campaign conducted under the direction of the Jewish Palestine
Legion Committee.”
1919: “Mme
L.C. de Gozdawa-Turezynowicz, the National Commissioner of Charities for
Lithuania arrived in New York aboard the SS
Baltic today and said that “Lithuania has truly a democratic cabinet
including a Catholic, a free thinker, a Socialist and a Jew” which indicates
that conditions for Jews in the newly independent country was an improvement
over their status when Lithuania was a province of the Russian Empire.
1920: In the UK, dedication of the London Jewish
Hospital
1920: The
meeting of the Central Conference of American Rabbis which began on June 28 at
Rochester, NY, is scheduled to come to an end today.
1920: The
London County Council adopted a policy of not employing aliens, which was
aimed, in part at Jews who had immigrated from Russia by a vote of 50 to 38
with four of the positive votes coming “Jewish Municipal Reformers – David
Davis, Major H.B. Lewis-Barned, Percy Simmons and Oscar Warburg.
1920: “Under
Crimson Skies,” a silent movie filmed by cinematographer Phil Rosen was
released today in the United States.
1921(30th of
Sivan, 5681): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1921(30th
of Sivan, 5681): Professor Morse Ascoli passed away today in Rome.
1921: Dr.
Joseph H. Hertz, the Chief Rabbi of the British Empire arrived in Vancouver
where he would have visited Schara Tzedeck and the Hadassah chapter founded in
1920.
1923: Grigori
Yakovlovich Sokolnikov ended his terms as People’s Commissar for Finance of the
RSFSR and began serving as People’s Commissar for Finance of the USSR.
1924: It was
reported today, that according to Samuel A. Goldsmith, Director of the Bureau
of Jewish Social Research, the “Jews of America” spent “about $25,000,000 last
year for “philanthropic and charitable endeavors” and of his total “12,250,000
was raised for local charitable organizations.”
1924: “Europe
Is Now Finding Work To Keep The Jews at Home” published today described efforts
to provided training and job opportunities for
Jews in Central and Eastern Europe led by ORT which is becoming
increasingly crucial given the closing of the immigration door in the United
States.
1925: Werner
“Heisenberg gave Max Born a paper entitled Über quantentheoretische Umdeutung
kinematischer und mechanischer Beziehungen ("Quantum-Theoretical
Re-interpretation of Kinematic and Mechanical Relations") to review and
submit for publication. In the paper, Heisenberg formulated quantum theory,
avoiding the concrete, but unobservable, representations of electron orbits by
using parameters such as transition probabilities for quantum jumps, which
necessitated using two indexes corresponding to the initial and final states´
(I have no idea what this means)
1926: “The
Zionist Organization of America made a sharp rejoinder today to the attack made
upon its leaders and members by the Joint Distribution Committee which charged
the Zionists with deliberately attempting to wreck the $25,000,000 United
Jewish Campaign conducted by the Joint Distribution Committee and affiliated
relief organizations.”
1927: At
Asbury Park, NJ, those attending the 27th annual convention of the
Rabbinical Assembly of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America are scheduled
to discuss “the function and scope of the proposed Rabbinical Assembly
Committee on Jewish Law…in an executive session.”
1928: “Kosher
Plant to Receiver” published today described the impact of the “petition in
bankruptcy” which has been filed against The Hebrew National Kosher Sausage
Factory by Alter M. Brody and Isidor Zimmerman.
1929: It was
reported today that “Minority stockholders of the Judea Industrial Corporation,
of which Municipal Court Justice Jacob S. Strahl of Brooklyn is president, have
brought suit before Supreme Court
Justice John L. Walsh to enjoin seventeen officers and directors of the
corporation and subsidiaries , the Judea Insurance Company, Ltd., of Palestine
and the Judea Life Insurance Company of New York from increasing the capital
stock of the Judea Life Insurance Company from $150,000 to $1,000,000.”
1929: Franz
Werfel, the Prague born author marred Alma Mahler, the widow of Gustav Mahler,
today.
1930: William
Weintraub announced today that the nine Jewish parochial schools which have a
deficit of $500,000 have combined their money-raising efforts of the United
Yeshiva Chest.
1931(21st
of Tammuz, 5691): Eighty-two-year-old German born Julius Feiss the former
president of Cleveland Federation of Jewish Charities and chairman of the board
of Joseph and Feiss and Company where ge was “a pioneer in the men’s clothing
industry in Cleveland passed away today.
https://clevelandhistorical.org/items/show/653
https://case.edu/ech/articles/j/joseph-feiss-co
1932: At their
meeting in Vienna today, “the world executive of the Agudath Israel declined to
accept the invitation of the American Jewish Congress to participate in a
conference in Geneva to discuss the feasibility of constituting a world Jewish
congress.
1932: In New
York, Rabbi Zvi Hersch Kohn the Hungarian born son of R' Chaim Hanoch HaKohen and Yitta Feige
Kohn and his wife Leah Sternberg Kohn gave birth to Pnina Betty Hacohen.
1933(12th
of Tammuz, 5693): Fifty-five-year-old Elizabeth “Lizzie” Rosenthal Feinberg,
the Polish born daughter of Louis and Rebecca Goldstein Rosenthal and the wife
of Moses Feinberg who buried in the Montefiore Cemetery after she passed away
today in New York.
1934: The
Turkish government stated the expulsion of the Jews from the Dardanelles had
been due to a misinterpretation of a law. The government declared it would
punish the officials found to be responsible, and that the Jews would be given
redress.
1934: The
National Convention of Young Judaea and the annual Central Tri-State Region of Young Judaea are
scheduled to begin today in Cincinnati.
1935:U.S.
premiere of “Escapade” a romantic comedy co-starring Luise Rainer with a script
by Herman J. Mankiewicz.
1936: In
Switzerland, in the Jewish cemetery at Veyrier, the President of the
International Association of Journalists accredited to the League of Nations
spoke at the funeral of “Stephen Lux, the Czech journalist who killed himself
in the League of Nations Assembly to call attention to the misery of Jews.”
1936: It was
reported today that “for the duration of the Olympic Games, the German people”
are ordered by the Nazis to adopt “a special regimen” including giving “up
reading Herr Streicher’s newspaper stories about how Jews kill little children
for Passover…”
1936: Major
Henry A. Proctor, a Member of Parliament, told delegates attending the meeting
of Zionist Organization of America in Providence, RI that “the great danger to
Zionism…was not in Britain’s possible stand in the Arab difficulty” because
“the Arabs will not succeed in London or in Palestine but there is a danger
that they will succeed in weakening the morale of American Zonists.”
1936: “Dr.
Stephen S. Wise expressed gratification tonight at his election to the
presidency of the Zionist Organization of America” saying “he viewed ‘the
unanimity of the summons as a promise of genuine support by all groups with the
Zionist movement.’”
1936: The Palestine Post reported that there
were 314 cases of ptomaine poisoning in numerous bomb-throwing and shooting
incidents throughout the country. Three Jewish laborers were wounded near
Nablus, and a watchman was hurt near Kiryat Anavim. An Arab was killed and
three wounded in an encounter with British troops in Hebron.
1937: In
Gorky, Jewish pianist and composer David Ashkenazi and his non-Jewish wife gave
birth to pianist and conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy.
https://www.harrisonparrott.com/news/2020-01-17/vladimir-ashkenazy-retires
1937: In an
interview given today on the day before his 77th birthday, Abraham
Cahan “talked of how the world looks to him fifty-five years after he came” to
the United States “and concluded that England, France and the United States
were rapidly putting into operation today the very measures he advocated as a
socialist a long time ago.”
1938:
President Roosevelt called for an international conference to consider the
"displaced persons" problem. The negligible results highlight the
passive role the Western world in the face of the Nazis. . Roosevelt's aims,
some say, are to deflect American Jewish appeals to help the German Jews. Aside
from Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic, which want enormous sums of money
to allow a small number of Jews to immigrate, the 32 nations attending the
conference decide that they will not permit large numbers of Jews to enter
their countries.
1938(7th
of Tammuz, 5698): Austrian born German producer Heinrich Nebenzahl, the father
of Seymour Neenzahl and founder of Nero Film production company who fled to
Paris after the Nazis came to power passed away in France today.
1938(7th of
Tammuz, 5698): Tuvia Dounia, the brother-in-law of Chaim Weizmann is one of the
victims of today’s outbreak of Arab violence in Haifa. Police found him slumped
over the wheel of the car he was driving with a bullet through his heart. Of
the four passengers in the vehicle three escaped harm but one was seriously
wounded.
1938: “Bombs
riots, and police action in various parts of Palestine today resulted in at
least twenty-three deaths and nearly a hundred less serious casualties.
1938: “The
immediate problem of the great intergovernmental conference which opened” today
“at Evian…is to find asylum for the political refugees forced out Germany and
Austria by the policies of the National Socialist regime”
1939: The last
remaining Jewish enterprises in Germany were closed.
1940: Today,
in Rumania, “Iron Guard leader Horia Sima, Minister of Culture…forbade Jewish
actors and musicians to perform in public and prohibited the playing of Jewish
songs and music.”
1941(11th of
Tammuz, 5701): Seventy-one-year-old German born oncologist Ferdinand Blumenthal
died in an air raid. After fleeing Nazi
Germany in 1933 Blumenthal went from Austria to Yugoslavia to a variety of
other locations before ending up in the Soviet Union where he taught before be
interred by the Communists.
1941: Today,
Rabbi Samuel H. Goldenson of Temple Emanu-El is scheduled to officiate at the
funeral for 69-year-old theatrical producer Sam H. Harris which will be
attended by “representatives of the theatrical, political and sports world.”
1941(11th of
Tammuz, 5701): Lithuanian militiamen murdered 2,514 Jews in Kovno.
1941(11th
of Tammuz, 5701): Forty-eight-year-old Sol Ullman, the son of Samuel and Kate
Ulman and NYU Law School graduate and husband of “the former Esther Blau” with
whom he had two sons who served as a State Assemblyman and New York State
Assistant Attorney General passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1941/07/07/87639780.pdf
1941: In
Liepāja, Latvia, which had been conquered by the Nazis and where Jews were
already being massacred, “Werner Hartman, a German war correspondent, saw the
Women's Prison crammed so full of prisoners that there was no room for them to
lie down.”
1941(11th of Tammuz, 5701): Elchonon Wasserman
“a prominent rabbi and rosh yeshiva in pre-World War II Europe was murdered
today by Lithuanians who were collaborators of the Nazis. Born in 1874, he was
one of the Chofetz Chaim's closest disciples and a noted Torah scholar. “Before
he was taken” by his Lithuanian killers, “he gave this statement: ‘In Heaven it
appears that they deem us to be righteous because our bodies have been chosen
to atone for the Jewish people. Therefore, we must repent now, immediately.
There is not much time. We must keep in mind that we will be better offerings
if we repent. In this way we will save the lives of our brethren overseas. Let
no thought enter our minds, God forbid, which is abominable, and which renders
an offering unfit. We are now fulfilling the greatest mitzvah. With fire she
(Jerusalem) was destroyed and with fire she will be rebuilt. The very fire
which consumes our bodies will one day rebuild the Jewish people.’”
1942: The
first issue of Eynikeyt (Unity), a Yiddish-language journal of the
Soviet Jewish Antifascist Committee, is published.
1942(21st
of Tammuz, 5702): Seventy year old Gerson Rothschild, the son of Sophie and
Nathan Baruch Rothschild, the husband of Frances Rothschild and he tfather of
Bessie, Myron and Sofia Rothschild passed away today after which he was buried
in the Riverdale Cemetery in Columbus, GA.
1942: One
day after her sister Margot received her orders to report to a labor camp, Anne
Frank and her families go into hiding in Amsterdam
1942: Bendin
(Poland) ghetto uprising,
1942.
"The warning cry issued from Jews in Vilna spurred initial thoughts of
ghetto revolts for thousands of young Jews, particularly members of the
clandestine Zionist-pioneer youth movements. In ghettos such as Bialystok,
Krakow, Bendin, Czestochowa, and Tarnow, rebellions and confrontations broke
out during the final deportations. These desperate acts of resistance testified
to the triumph of the Jewish and human spirit and constituted both a cry for
life and a banner of hope for future generations."
1942: In New
York, “Jewish American real estate developer Aaron Gural and Harriet Feil” gave
birth Rensselaer Polytechnic alum and “New York real estate developer” Jeffrey
Gural, the brother of Jane and Barbara Gural and husband of “geologist Paula
Gurel” with whom had three children
https://therealdeal.com/closings/jeffrey-gural/
1942: Today,
Jews in Sevastopol “were ordered to wear “white Stars of David.”
1943: “Nazis
Said to Curb Catholic Prelates” published today described “a protest signed by
all Cahtolic Bishops in the Reich against a Nazi party plan to extend the
wearing of the Star of David to ‘mischlings,’ a Nazi terminology for the
offspring of a Jewish father and an ‘Aryan’ mother, or vice versa as well as to
persons married to Jews.”
1944: In the
Ural Mountains, Czarna (née Zielinski) and Reuven “Ruwek” (Lewin) Levy gave
birth to their son Moshe with whom “they returned to Poznan, in Poland” before
moving to Lodz in 1948.
1944: Twenty-four-year-old
Andrée Borrel a member of the French Resistance who later fought the Nazis as a
member of the British SOE and her three compatriots were given lethal
injections at the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in the Vosges
Mountains of Alsace and then were burned alive in the camp’s incinerator.
1944:
Birthdate of songwriter Claude-Michel Schönberg, the native of Vannes, who
created the music for the hit Broadway shows “Les Misérables” and “Miss Saigon.”
1945: Adolf
Cardinal Bertram, the archbishop of Breslau whose refusal to speak out against
the Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses, whose issuance of statement calling the
war with Poland “a holy war and whose sending of birthday greetings to Adolf
Hitler while the Germans were winning hardly squares with Time magazine’s
description of him as an anti-Nazi, passed away today.
1946: U.S.
premiere of “A Stolen Life” an American remake of an English film directed by
Curtis Bernhardt with music by Max Steiner.
1946: Jews
fled Kiecle, Poland after being the victim of a pogrom
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/july/15.asp
1947: Tonight,
while addressing the closing session of the 50th annual convention
of the ZOA Republican Senator Owen Brewster of Maine and Democrat Senator James
E. Murray “charged tonight that the State Departments has failed to act
definitely and constructively in regard to Palestine.”
1948: A convoy
arrives at Zion Square in Jerusalem carrying food for the starving city. The arrival seems to validate reports that a
new road has been completed by the Jews fighting there from the coastal plain
to the Judean hills.
1948(29th
of Sivan, 5708): Fifty-five-year-old Bernard D. Rubin, the man behind the
Tootsie Roll who was also active in raising money for Jewish causes passed away
today.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9400E1D71E3BE33BBC4F53DFB1668383659EDE
1948: “The UN
observers had their first casualty with the death of the French Observer
Commandant Rene Labarriere, who had been wounded near the Afula area and later
died in the Jewish Hospital at Afula.
1948: Lucy
Mandelstam, who had been born in Vienna in 1926 and survived Theresienstadt and
Auschwitz, makes Aliyah arriving in Haifa.
1949: Plans
are about to be announced for the leaders of Jordan, Iraq and Cyrenaica to come
to London and meet with the Foreign Secretary at the same time that “all of
Britain’s ambassadors to countries of the Middle East” will be in the UK’s
capital city.
1949(10th
of Tammuz, 5709): Seventy-three-year-old Herman H. Pollak, the Ohio born son of
William and Marie Lederer Pollak passed away today in Cook County after which
he was buried at the Oa Woods Cemetery in Chicago.
1949: Emil
Salomon, the executive director of the Tulsa Jewish Federation” wrote to Mr.
Edwin Rosenberg, the President of the USNA that the Tulsa Jewish community
“dared not increase its DP Unit quota beyond the 24 units” already agreed upon”
because there were not jobs for additional “DP units.”
1950: Just
after the North attacked the South, Yaacov Shimoni, deputy director of Far
Eastern affairs in the Foreign Ministry, wrote a letter to Foreign Minister
Moshe Sharett asserting that the South Korean government was corrupt and
oppressive whereas the North Korean one seemed cleaner and was more efficient
and popular.7 In August 1960, however, the Foreign Ministry decided to make
every effort to establish full diplomatic ties with South Korea. This was after
the fall of the dictatorial regime of Syngman Rhee, who resigned his post and
went into exile in April 1961.
1950: In
Israel, hospital nurses went on strike demanding a 42-hour work week during the
summer months at government run hospitals.
Private hospitals and those administered by trade unions have already
agreed to the demand and are not affected by the strike. Skeleton staffs had been left on duty to
ensure the health of patients
1951: The Jerusalem Post reported that after
all final registration demands were met, 16 political parties became entitled
to compete in the Second Knesset elections. Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion was
cheered wildly on his pre-election tour by more than 5,000 Migdal Ashkelon residents.
He advised all persons between 20 and 40 years of age to learn to bear arms and
assured the gathered crowds that their town would become the second port city
in the south of the country, after Eilat. Following the discovery of major
irregularities in the shoe industry, the authorities froze all stocks held by
shoe manufacturers and ordered a strict shoe sales control throughout the
country. Three persons were wounded in the Musrara Quarter of Jerusalem by Arab
snipers, aiming at Israeli passersby from the walls of the Old City.
1955: Sandy
Koufax gave up eight walks and lasted “only 4 and 2⁄3 innings” in his first
start as a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1957:
Birthdate of Detroit native Dr. Charlie Pruchno,
1958:
Birthdate of Lena Gilbert, the go-to gal when you want something done
professionally or in the Jewish Community at Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
1959(30th
of Sivan, 5719): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1962: Eugene
Ferkauf, the founder of the E. J. Korvette chain of discount department stores
appeared on the cover of Time
magazine.
http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19620706,00.html
1962(4th
of Tammuz, 5772): Eighty-eight year Mrs. Bessie Thomashefsky, the “Queen of the
Yiddish Theatre and estranged wife of Boris Thomashefsky with whom she had two
sons, Harry and Ted, passed away today in Los Angeles.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/thomashefsky-bessie
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/07/08/91173965.pdf
1962: Orville
Prescott’s review of The Slave by Isaac Bashevis Singer was published
today.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/01/25/home/singer-slave.html
1963(14th
of Tammuz, 5723): Parashat Balak
1963: It was
reported today that Moshe Bartur, Israel’s permanent delegate to the United
Nations has told the Social Committee of the United Nations Economic and Social
Council meeting in Geneva that “virulent anti-Semitism was being promoted in
the Soviet Union by Moscow’s denial of human rights to the three million Jews”
living in that country.
1964: “The
Killers” a film based on the novel of the same name directed and produced by
Don Siegel and featuring Norm Fell was released in the United States today.
1965(6th
of Tammuz, 5725): Eighty-six-year-old philanthropist and mother of eight Mrs.
Sadie Freedman Annenberg, the widow of “millionaire publisher Moses L.
Annenberg” whom she married in 1899 passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1965/07/07/96705114.html?pageNumber=37
1966:
Birthdate of Jacques Berlinerblau, the native of Portland, Maine, NYU alum and
author of scholarly work on “Jewish-American literature and biblical
literature” who became “Professor and Director of the Program for Jewish
Civilization at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown
University.”
1967(28th
of Sivan 5727): Seventy-sic year old St. Lawrence University trained attorney
and WW I U.S. Navy veteran Captain Jerome A. Liederman the son of Samuel and
Minnie Lederman and the brother Jeanette Lederman Arons, who served with the
Office Naval Intelligence during WW II and “served at the war crime trials in
Yokohama” while raising two children – Maxine and Jay – with his wife Mabel,
passed way today.
1969: “The
Rabbinical Seminary of America” on 69th Avenue in Forest Hills,
“announced the establishment of a permanent branch in Israel” which is located
on “a five-acre site in the Sanhedrin area of Jerusalem” where “seminarian will
be offered two years of a six-program of studies leading to an Orthodox
rabbinic degree.”
1969: In Tel
Aviv, Dr. John D. Glover a professor at the Harvard Business School “suggested
today that Israeli leaders look beyond their desired science industrial to the
people who will be need to run them” since the development of human resources
represented the bottleneck here, not the industrial plants.”
1969: Pitcher
Dave Roberts, whose father is Jewish, made his major league debut with the San
Diego Padres.
1970:
Eighty-year-old actress Marjorie Rameau who according to Bernard Sobel was the
responsible for the creating the Ruben Sandwich which she “inaugurated when”
she visited the Reuben's Delicatessen
one night when the cupboards were particularly bare” passed away today.
1971: Dr. Tadeusz Kosibowicz, director
of the state hospital in Będzin, who sent to Dachau for his work at rescuing
Jews and was awarded the title of
“Righteous,” passed away today.
https://sprawiedliwi.org.pl/en/stories-of-rescue/story-rescue-kosibowicz-tadeusz
1973(6th of
Tammuz, 5733): Conductor and composer Otto Klemperer passed away
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0514.html
http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Klemperer-Otto.htm
1973: “Live
and Let Die,” the eighth spy film in the James Bond series co-produced by Harry
Saltzman, with a screenplay by Tom Mankiewicz and co-starring Yaphet Kotto was
released today in the United Kingdom two weeks after having been released in
the United States.
1976: The Jerusalem Post reported that under a
new bill presented to the Knesset by Transport Minister Gad Ya'acobi Israel
could take "unspecified sanctions" against any airline found
negligent in security precautions which could endanger its citizens. The
Ministry of Labor announced that universal sick-pay benefits for every worker
in Israel would become the law of the land on October 1, 1976.
1976: In
Israel, the President, Prime Minister, and most of the cabinet ministers were
among the thousands of mourners who attended the funeral of Lt. Col. Yoni
Natanyahu, the 30 year old military officer who gave his life to insure the
successful rescue at Entebbe.
1976: By order
of President Idi Amin, Uganda today marks the first of two days of mourning for
the seven Palestinian terrorists killed during the Israeli raid on Entebbe as
well the Ugandan soldiers reported to have lost their lives.
1976: U.S.
premiere of “Shivers,” the Canadian horror film produced by Ivan Reitman and
directed by David Cronenberg who also wrote the script.
1976: Final
broadcast of a syndicated version of “I’ve Got a Secret” – a game show produced
by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman, created by Allan Sherman
1976: While
French President Valery Giscard d’Estaing and Prime Minister Jacques Chirac
have not made any comment on the raid on Entebbe, Mordechai Ghazith, Israel’s
ambassador to France congratulated the French for their “role in the ordeal.”
1976: “Michael
Cojot gave a written account of his experience at Entebbe to a young French
official who was collecting testimonies ‘for the sole benefit of the archives’”
While IDF Motta Gur said that “had it not been for the information that Cojot”
supplied “many more hostages and soldiers would have died” the French never
acknowledged his role.
1977(20th of
Tammuz, 5737): One person was killed and twenty-two were wounded when
terrorists bombed a market in Petah Tikvah.
1978(1st
of Tammuz, 5738): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1978(1st
of Tammuz, 5738): Eighty-two-year-old Isador Lubin the Worcester born son of
Harris and Inda Francke Lubin and Clarke University trained economist who
studied under Thorstein Veblein who served as U.S. Commissioner of Labor
Statistics passed away today in Annapolis, MD.
1978: Funeral
services are scheduled today for Jack Tiger, husband of Bella Tiger and father
of Fern and Steven Tiger flowed by “internment at the Baron Hirsch Cemetery.”
1979:
Birthdate of Mark Moshe Kasher, the New York born, Los Anageles trained
“stand-up comedian, author and actor known professionally as Moshe Kasher.
1979: Three
French citizens were injured by a terrorist bomb near the UN offices in east
Jerusalem.
1978: The U.S.
Maccabiah Basketball Team is scheduled to compete in the 11th
Maccabiah that begins in Israel today.
1980:Amy
Alcott won the Mayflower classic today.
1982(15th
of Tammuz, 5742): Seventy-seven-year-old decorated U.S. Naval Academy
graduate Henry Emil Bernstein, the
Jacksonville, FL born son of Clare and Emil Bernstein a partner in the “Stuart
Bernstein Company which sold hats, clothing and furnishing goods, passed away
today.
1984(6th
of Tammuz, 5775): Eighty-five-year-old Ukraine native and alum of the
University of Georgia and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Max Cutler, a
“pioneer in the fight against cancer” and the husband of “the former Bertie
Berger” passed away today in California.
1985(17th
of Tammuz, 5745): Parashat Balak
1985(17th
of Tammuz. 5745): Eighty-eight-year-old Joseph Willen, who served as executive
vice president of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York from 1941
to 1967 passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/1985/07/10/nyregion/joseph-willen-is-dead-a-jewish-fund-raiser.html
1986: Birthdate
of New York native and “American entrepreneur” David Karp who started Tumbi
which he sold to Yahoo for $1.1 billion.
1986: Eighty-seven-year-old
Lotah Kreyssig, whose efforts to stop the Nazi euthanasia program almost earned
him a trip to the concentration camps but did cost him his job, passed away
today.
1987: 'World
of Yesterday: Jews in England 1870-1920'' which opens today at St. Paul's
Cathedral Crypt, is among the many exhibitions included in this summer's Jewish
East End Celebration.
1988(21st of
Tammuz, 5748): In Israel 14 bus passengers were killed as an Arab terrorist
assaulted the bus driver as the bus was driving by the edge of a cliff.
1988(21st of
Tammuz, 5748): Ninety-three year old David Theodore Wilentz, the Attorney
General of the state of New Jersey from 1934 to 1944 who prosecuted Bruno
Hauptmann for kidnapping the Lindbergh Baby passed away today.
1989(3rd of
Tammuz, 5749: A terrorist seized a bus
traveling between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
He forced the bus to crash into a ravine where it burst into flames
killing sixteen passengers many of whom burned in their seats. The attack took place at Telshe Stone, the
place where Mickey Marcus was shot during the War for Independence.
1989: At a concert in Jerusalem, the conductor
Zubin Metah asked the audience to stand for two minutes of silence in memory of
those killed that day in Telshe Stone.
Metah also asked the audience to refrain from any applause.
1993(17th
of Tammuz, 5753): Tzom Tammuz
1993(17th
of Tammuz, 5753): Ninety-four-year-old Benjamin Zukerman, the Romanian born son
of Samuel and Ida Greenberg Zuckerman, the husband of Ida Scheinker Zuckerman
whom he married in 1926 passed away today in Florida.
1993: One
person was wounded in a stabbing attack in west Jerusalem.
1994: After
having premiered at Cannes, “Cold Water,” “a French film written and directed
by Oliver Assayas’ was released in France today.
1994: After
having premiered in Los Angeles, “Forest Gump” produced by Wendy Finerman and
Steve Tisch and a screenplay by Eric Roth was released in the rest of the
United States today.
1995: Pitcher
Brian Bark made his major league debut with the Boston Red Sox.
1997(1st of
Tammuz, 5757): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1997: (1st
of Tammuz, 5757) At the age of 101 Gerda Lissner, the Stettin Germany born
daughter of Clara and Simon Karger, the wife of Herman Lissner and the sister
of Irma Karger passed away today in NYC.
1997: The New York Times book section features
a review of Passion and Reason Edited by E. Joshua Rosenkranz, a
former honoree of the Cornell University Jewish Life Fund and Bernard Schwartz
and Ben-Gurion and the Holocaust by Shabtai Teveth in which the
historian contradicts contentions that Ben-Gurion was insensitive to the plight
of the Jews of Europe and/or that he uncaringly exploited their situation for
the benefit of the Yishuv
1999(22nd
of Tammuz, 5959): Seventy-seven-year-old British businessman Joe Hyman who made
and lost a fortune passed away today.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/1999/jul/12/guardianobituaries1
1999(22nd
of Tammuz, 5959): Ninety-three year old singer and composer Benny Bell passed
away today.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/165717#.UdYOi50o6po
1999: Natan
Sharansky succeeds Eli Suissa as Minister of Internal Affairs.
1999: Ehud
Barak succeeds Silvan Shaom as Minister of Science, Culture and Sport
1999: Shlomo
Ben-Ami succeeds Avigdor Kahalani was Minister of Public Security.
1999: Eli
Suissa succeeds Ariel Sharon as Minister of National Infrastructure.
1999: David
Levy succeeds Ariel Sharon as Israel’s Foreign Minister
1999: Binyamin
Ben-Eliezer succeeds Limor Livant as Minister of Communications.
1999: Ehud
Barak began serving as the 10th Prime Minister of Israel
2000: “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” a film
nominated for 10 Oscars with a script co-authored by James Schamus was released
today in Hong Kong.
2000(3rd of
Tammuz, 5760):Eighty-eight-year-old Władysław "Wladek" Szpilman a
pianist and classical composer, who is widely known as the protagonist of the
2002 Roman Polanski film The Pianist, which is based on the book "The
Pianist" recounting his survival of the German occupation of Warsaw and
the Holocaust passed away today.
http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Szpilman-Wladyslaw.htm
http://www.ushmm.org/information/exhibitions/online-features/special-focus/szpilman-warsaw-pianist
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/nov/01/wladyslaw-szpilman-pianist-collaboration-claims
2001: U.S.
premiere of “Black River” a FOX made for television movie starring Lisa
Edelstein as “Laura Crosby.”
2001: “Kosher
À La Cart” published today described the uniquely patented cart that is being
used to sell kosher food at the World Trade Center
2002(26th of Tammuz, 5762): Kenneth Koch, Ameircan poet and winner of the
1994 Bollingen Prize, passed away at the age of 77.
2003(6th of Tammuz, 5763): Spc. Jeffrey M. Wershow was killed today when
he was shot in Baghdad during military operations. He was 22 years old.
“Attending law school and running for president of the United States were
Jeffrey Wershow’s plans after finishing his time in the National Guard. He
consumed history books, particularly those about the Vietnam War, and developed
an interest in politics, even working in the election offices of local
politicians in Gainesville, Fla. After spending three years in the Army
Reserve, Wershow attended Santa Fe Community College, in New Mexico, prior to
enlisting in the National Guard. His father, Jonathan Wershow, said that before
being deployed to Iraq, his son attended Sabbath services near Fort Stewart in
Georgia and would later celebrate Passover in the desert in Iraq. His father
maintains that “the military was very good for Jeffrey. He really grew up; [the
military] really helped him a lot. If my son had to die, he felt that he was
giving his life for a cause worth dying for.” (As reported by The Forwards)
2003: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish
authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Benjamin
Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson, After Jihad by Noah
Feldman and the recently released paperback edition of Beyond the Last
Village: A Journey of Discovery in Asia's Forbidden Wilderness by Alan
Rabinowitz
2004(17th of Tammuz, 5764): Tzom Tammuz
2004(17th of Tammuz, 5764): Captain Moran Vardi, 25, was killed by
terrorists in Israel.
2005: The group claiming that it carried out the kidnapping of Ihab
al-Sharif, Egypt’s top diplomat in Iraq, said in an Internet posting today that
a religious court had convicted him of crimes that are punishable by death
because he “was guilty apostasy because Egypt had allied itself to the Jews and
Christians.”
2005: “Lion of
Hollywood The Life and Legend of Louis B. Mayer” published today provided a
detailed review of the “wonderfully readable biography Lion of Hollywood”
by Scott Eyman.
2006(10th of
Tammuz, 5766): First Lieutenant Yehuda Bassel, 21, was killed this afternoon
during an IDF operation in the northern Gaza Strip designed to destroy the
launching sites for Kassam missiles. The 21 year old from Moshav Yinon was
scheduled to be laid to rest tomorrow afternoon in the Kfar Warburg military
cemetery in southern Israel.
2006: Judith
Kaye, the Chief Judge of the New York Court of appeals “authored a dissent in
an omnibus appeal of four same-sex marriage disputes (including Hernandez v.
Robles) in which the majority ruled that the state constitution "does not
compel recognition of marriages between members of the same sex". Kaye's
dissent admonished that while New York State has a tradition of upholding equal
rights, "the court today retreats from that proud tradition".
2007: “When
Nietzsche Wept” based on the novel of the same name by Irvin D. Yalom
co-starring Michal Yannai and Jamie Elman was released today.
2007: In
Jerusalem, "Performances in Nature" presents famous Israeli singer,
David Broza, in an acoustic performance at Ein Chemed.
2007(20th of
Tammuz, 5767): Advertising executive, author and columnist Lois Wayse, who
coined the memorable catchphrase “With a name like Smucker’s it has to be good”
passed away at the age of 80.
2007: The
Israeli premiere of "We Are Together" (Thina Simunye) will take place
at the Jerusalem Film Festival at 10:15 P.M.
2008: An
international conference on Dead Sea Scrolls research opens in Israel.
2008 (3 Tammuz, 5768): On the Hebrew calendar,
the fourteenth anniversary of the passing of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M.
Schneerson, of righteous memory.
2008: The New York Times features
reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including America America by Ethan Canin and City of Thieves by
David Benioff, a novel “which follows a character named Lev Beniov, the son of
a revered Soviet Jewish poet who “disappeared” in the Stalinist purges, as Lev
and an accomplice carry out an impossible assignment during the Nazi blockade
of Leningrad.”
2008: The
Washington Post features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle East by Lawrence Freedman
2008: The San
Francisco Giants shipped Brian Horowitz down to Fresno for more playing time.
2008: The chief Nazi
hunter of the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center, Dr. Efraim
Zuroff, headed to South America in a final public campaign
to locate the most wanted Nazi in, the world and bring him to justice. The
search for Dr. Aribert Heim, 94, the former Austrian doctor also known as
"Dr. Death" who tops the Wiesenthal Center's list of "most
wanted Nazis," has spanned nearly half a century since his 1962
disappearance in Germany ahead of a planned prosecution for his war crimes.
2009: A newly formed Iranian Jewish Federation
made up of emigrants from the Iranian city of Mashad is scheduled to meet today
in Jerusalem in an effort to promote and preserve their heritage.
2009: Rabbi Levi
Yitzchok Horowitz was hospitalized in the Sharei Tzedek hospital in Jerusalem
after suffering a cardiac arrest.
2009: Capt. Ben
Sklaver shipped out for Afghanistan after setting a wedding date with his
fiancée Beth Segaloff
2009: Ben Horowitz
and his partner launched Andreessen Horowitz, “to invest in and advise both
early-stage startups and more established growth companies in high technology.”
2010: The U.S.
Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled to present “First Person With Al Moritz”
which is part of the First Person program which is designed provide the general
public to hold conversations with Holocaust survivors.
2010: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and US
President Barack Obama met in the White House today and discussed direct talks,
Gaza, Iran and other issues
2010: Simon Wolfson,
who was created Baron Wolfson of Aspley Guise, of Aspley Guise in the County of
Bedfordshire was introduced in the House of Lords today. Wolfson is the founder
of the £250,000 Wolfson Economic Prize.
2010: Sir Malcolm
Rifkind became Chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee.
2011(4th
of Tammuz): Yahrzeit of Rabbi Yaakov ben Meir of Romereau known as
"Rabbeinu Tam
2011: “Israeli
Culture through Hebrew Conversation” an eight week course offered at the
Historic 6th & I Synagogue is scheduled to have its opening
session this evening.
2011: Prime Minister
Binyamin Netanyahu met with his Romanian counterpart Emil Boc in Bucharest, who
said that he opposes a Palestinian unilateral declaration of statehood.
2011: President
Shimon Peres and Sephardi Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar have issued a call to the
public to desist from all forms of extremism and incitement.
2011: The Schalit
family traversed the Knesset's hallways today to request that MKs sign a letter
calling on the government to release Hamas terrorists in exchange for captive
soldier Gilad Schalit.
2011: Oscar Goodman
completed his services as the 21st Mayor of Las Vegas.
2011: “The Judy Gold
Show: My Life as a Sitcom” which the New York Times called “highly
entertaining” officially opened today in NYC.
2011: Carolyn
Goldmark Goodman, the wife of former Mayor Oscar Goodman became the 22nd
Mayor of Las Vegas after having received 60 per cent of the vote.
2011: As a sign of
social and cultural change in Israel Ethan Bronner describes the debate in
Israel over a two-day weekend.
2012: “Israel: A
Home Movie” is scheduled to be shown today the Jerusalem Film Festival
2012: Indonesia is
to open a consulate in Ramallah, headed by a diplomat with the rank of
ambassador, who will also unofficially serve as his country’s point man for
contacts with Israel, The Times of Israel learned on today.
2012: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told
Palestinian President Mahmoud toiday that the Israel-Palestinian conflict
should not be forgotten amid wider upheaval in the Middle East.
2012: Israel reiterated today that it would refuse
cooperation with a a UN Human Rights Council fact finding mission to probe
Israeli West Bank settlement activity and Jewish building in east Jerusalem.
2013: Due to lack of
a repayment, there will be no “free” bus from the Kotel on Motzei Shabbat; a
service that Egged has been operating on the honor system to accommodate the
needs of “observant” riders.
2013: In Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, the traditional minyan celebrates Independence Shabbat, honoring
Jewish American heroes of the revolution, followed by a beat the summer heat
Kiddush featuring Sundaes on Saturday.
2013: “Caught In The
Web” is among the films scheduled to be screened at the 30th
International Jerusalem Film Festival.
2013(28th
of Tammuz, 5773): Ninety-three year old publisher Arthur Rosenthal passed away
toay. (As reported by Paul Vitello)
2013(28th
of Tammuz, 5773): Eighty-nine-year-old Nixon adviser Leonard Garment passed
away today.(As reported by Eric Lichtblau)
2013: US Secretary
of State John Kerry’s plan to resume peace talks between Israel and the
Palestinian Authority calls for a cessation of settlement construction outside
settlement blocs in the West Bank and the release of 103 Palestinian prisoners,
the London-based Al-Hayat newspaper reported today (As reported by Khaled Abu
Tomeh and Tovah Lazaroff)
2013: Omri Casspi,
the only Israeli hoopster to ever play in the NBA, will sign a two-year, $2
million (NIS 7.3 million) deal with the Houston Rockets, Yahoo! Sports reported
today (As reported by Raphael Gellar)
2014: The
New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors -- A Most
Imperfect Union: A Contrarian History of the United States by Ilan Stavans
-- and of special interest to Jewish readers – The Arsenal of Democracy:
FDR, Detroit and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War by A.J. Baime which
tells of the role played by infamous ant-Semite Henry Ford in the creation of
the Arsenal of Democracy that defeated the Nazis.
2014: A tour of Jewish Poland led by Gratz
College scholar Dr. Michael Steinlauf is scheduled to come to an end.
2014: Jerusalem-born conductor Asher Fisch is
scheduled to lead “a Romantic program fitting for a mid-summer Berkshires'
evening.”
2014: The Shin Bet Security announced that
“several Jewish suspects have been arrested in connection with murder of a
Palestinian teen” on July 2. (JTA)
http://www.timesofisrael.com/suspects-arrested-in-killing-of-east-jerusalem-teen/
2014: Lynn Chaney, the wife of the former Vice
President tells the New York Times
that “the last book to make her cry was Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree
(“I have to steel myself before I read it to my grandchildren.”)
2014: After 25 rockets were fired into Israel
from Gaza today, the IAD killed two members of the Islamic Jihad this evening.
2014: “Israel Police said today that
19-year-old Shelley Dadon, whose body was found in a car park in Migdal Ha'emek
in early May, was murdered by her taxi driver, 34-year-old Hussein Yousef
Khalifa, who confessed and reenacted her killing.” (As reported by Ahiya Raved
and Yoav Zitun)
2014: Palestinian security forces used tear gas
to prevent rioters from burning Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus tonight.
2015: In Tel Aviv, the first annual Blues
Festival is scheduled to come to an end.
2015: In Leeds, UK, Frank Virgon is scheduled
to lecture on “Isaac Bashevis Singer: How his Works have been Lost in
Translation in the US.”
2015(19th of Tammuz, 5775): Seventy-seven-year-old
Jerry Weintraub who combined the worlds of Hollywood and politics passed away
today.
2015(19th of Tammuz, 5775): Ninety-three-year-old Vilnus native Rachel
Margolis, the WW II partisan, turned biology professor and Holocaust
preservationist passed away today.
http://sites.keene.edu/cohencenter/rachel-margolis-lithuanian-partisan-and-survivor/
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/women-of-courage-rachel-margolis-2236081.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/women-of-courage-rachel-margolis-2236081.html
2016: David J. Shulkin began serving as Under
Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Health.
2016: The Mission to Israel sponsored by the
Jewish Federation of North America is scheduled to begin today.
2016: Three months after Israel’s Chief
Rabbnate reject the author of Rabbi Haskel Lookstein to perform conversions,
Natan Sharansky today “spoke at a 200-person protest on Lookstein’s behalf in
front of the Chief Rabbinical Court in Jerusalem.” (As reported by Ben Sales)
2016: Judy Margles, the executive director of
the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education and board chair
Elaine Coughlin “announced today the purchase of a $5 million space in Oldtown
to serve as the institution’s permanent home.
2016: Dr. Suzanne Schneider of the Brooklyn
Institute for Jewish Research is scheduled to teach the first session of “Primo
Levi: Memory, Meaning and the Holocaust.”
2016: The Consulate General of Israel is
scheduled to host a luncheon where “Israeli Hi-Tech entrepreneur and
philanthropist, Rony Zarom and Batsheva Moshe, CEO of Unistream talk about the
impact of economic gaps on Israeli society and their efforts to empower Jewish
and Arab youth from Israel's disadvantaged localities through
entrepreneurship.”
2016: The Jerusalem Film Festival is scheduled
to open with its celebratory first evening tonight in Sultan’s Pool with a
screening of Pedro Almodovar’s latest film, “Julieta,” based loosely on three
short stories in Alice Munro’s book “Runaway.” Emma Suarez, who stars in
Almodovar’s latest film (see trailer at top of story), will also attend the festival’s
opening night festivities. (As reported by Jessica Steinberg)
2017: The International Festival of Light
exhibition in Jerusalem is scheduled to come to an end today.
2017: This evening “30,000 Jews from all across
the globe are scheduled to join together at the Teddy stadium in Jerusalem to
bring in the 20th Maccabiah Games.”
2017: Daniel Polisar is scheduled to present
the second session “The Zionist Vision: A New Look at Theodor Herzl.”
2018: “Anne Frank’s Family Was Thwarted by U.S.
Immigration Rules, Research Shows” published today described the failed
attempts by Otto Frank, the father of Anne Franks to save his family from the
Nazis.
2018: As a reminder of the vitality of “small
town Judaism” Lily Zukin is scheduled to begin her Bat Mitzvah weekend tonight
at Agudas Achim in Coralville, IA.
2018: “As the Syrian army continues its
offensive on rebel-held areas near the Golan border,” Israel has signaled its
expectation that the Assad government honor the “1974 Separation of Forces
Agreement.
2018: As Israelis respond to public relations
blitz by the Polish government touting the “the joint declaration signed by
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that effectively approved “a Polish law that
criminalized accusing Poles of complicity in the extermination of Jews during
World War II” nobody has made any reference to the rabid anti-Semitism that
gripped pre-war Poland.
2019: In Cedar Rapids, a double simcha –
Shabbat and the natal day of Lena Gilbert, the go to gal in the Jewish
community.
2019(3rd of Tammuz, 5779): Parashat
Korach;
2019(3rd of Tammuz, 5779): Yahrzeit
of The Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson OBM
2019: In Jerusalem, the Nocturno Café is
scheduled to host an evening with singer/songwriter Yahli Sobol, “the leader
singer of mythological band Monica Sex.”
http://www.ithl.org.il/page_14713
2020: Ilana Kaufman, the Director of the Jews
of Color Initiative is scheduled to talk online “about her experiences growing
up Black and Jewish, feeling isolated, racism in the Jewish community and the
work needed to address racism.”
2020: The Open Circle Jewish Learning is
scheduled to present online, “Witness as Activist: The Lessons of Elie Wiesel.”
2020: As part of its virtual learning program,
B’nai Jershurun Congregation is scheduled to host “What’s NU?” with Rabbi Hal
Rudin-Luria applying “topical text study and discussion to the most relevant
Jewish topics of the day.”
2020: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is
scheduled to host a virtual presentation by Doris Kearns as she talks about
“Leadership in the Time of COVID.”
2020: Rules previously approved by the Knesset
“which will see synagogues, bars, nightclubs and event venues capped at 50
people” are scheduled to go into effect today.
2021: The American Sephardi Association is
scheduled to present Rabbi Elie Abadie, the Lebanese born physician as he talks
about “Jewish Life in the Arab World: A New Chapter?”
2021: In Israel, “the high-level coronavirus
cabinet is scheduled to meet today to discuss the resurgence of the virus in
the country due to the fast-spreading Delta variant.”
2021: According to a memo “JP Morgan Chase’s
chief executive Jamie Dimon has sent to employees” all “the employees should
return the office” as of today.
2021: The Streicker Center is scheduled to host
Benny “Briga and cookbook author Adeena Sussman who will get you whipping up
Cafe Levinsky’s creations without flying to Israel with their new cookbook, Gazoz:
The Art of Making Magical, Seasonal Sparkling Drinks.
2022: Lockdown University is scheduled to host
a webinar with Rabbi Jeremy Rosen lecturing on “Study the Bible. Know What is
in it and What is Not.”
2022: In Cedar Rapids, the Hadassah Book Club
is scheduled to discuss Good Riddance, a novel by Elinor Lipman.
2022: Based on previously published reports the
Highland Park Parade Mass Shooting took on a Jewish flavor as one of the
victims was identified as Jacki Sundheim a member of North Shore Congregation
Israel in Glencoe ”who was the Reform synagogue’s events and b’nei mitzvah
coordinator” and that the shooter had been asked to leave the Chabad House
during Pesach by Rabbi Rabbi Yosef Schanowitz
2022: JHMOMC is scheduled to Executive
Director, Jessica Solomon, lecturing on “The Golden Medinah: The 19th and 20th
Century Monmouth County, New Jersey Eastern European Jewry Immigration.”
2022: The American Sephardi Federation is
scheduled to present Joyce Yarrow is scheduled to lecture on “Zahara and the
Lost Book of Light” as part of New Works Wednesdays.
2022: The Jewish Museum of London is scheduled
to host a “Virtual Teachers CPD that explores what it really means to be Jewish
and how best to teach an authentic and inclusive Judaism in your classrooms.”
2022: YIVO, Center for Jewish History and the
Yiddish Book Center are scheduled to present Anita Norich lecturing on “Fear
and Other Stories by Chana Blankshteyn.”
2023(17th of Tammuz, 5783): Tzom
Tammuz: Shiva Asar Be-Tammuz (Seventeenth of Tammuz), a minor fast day that
commemorates the breaching of the walls of Jerusalem in 586 B.C.E. by the
Babylonians and again in 70 C.E. by the Romans. According to some sages, the
Second Temple fell because of the lack of love and community spirit. In
America, whether it is bullying or the coarsening of our public discourse, we
are painfully aware of the harm that speech can do. Since most American
Jews do not refrain from food and drink on the 17th of Tammuz maybe it has been
proposed that we refrain from Lashon Hara (i.e. Speaking Evil) on this
minor fast day. To paraphrase the old Chasidic tale, we will show as much
concern for what comes out of our mouths as we show for what we put in our
mouths for one day, it might become a habit.
2023: The JCC Maccabi Games are scheduled to
begin today in Israel.
2024(30th of Tammuz, 5784):
Parashat Korach and Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
for more see https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/
2024: EuroNASCAR champion, Alon Day plans to
compete as part of the Alpha Prime Racing team in the NASCAR Xfinity Series
Chicago Street Race today in a car whose “hood will display an homage to the Israeli
hostages held in Gaza.”
https://tjpnews.com/israeli-stock-car-racer-gets-nascar-shot-with-support-for-hostages-on-hood/
2024: The Beit Agnon in Jerusalem is scheduled
to host a joint reading of S.Y. Agnon’s “The Fortune of Rothschild or the Two
Ladies” followed by a lecture Adin Ner-Davd who “will examine the character of
Rothschild and reflect on the hidden and overt messages of the story.”
2024: Director Ofir Raul Grazier is scheduled
to attend the screening of “America” “a
new film starring Michael Moshonov as a former champion swimmer from Israel now
living in Chicago who returns to Tel Aviv after learning his estranged father
has died” at the New Plaza Cinema in NYC.
2024: As July 6th begins
in Israel, an unprecedented wave of anti-Semitism that has included Hamas
supporters calling for Zionist passengers on a New York subway to raise their
hands, sweeps the United States and the Hamas held hostages begin day 274 in
captivity. (Editor’s note: this
situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so we are just providing a
snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time.)
